It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly link up hosted by Kathryn at Book Date . Then, Jen at Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee at Unleashing Readers decided to give it a focus on kid’s literature. This is a chance for bloggers to recap their weeks of reading and share their plans for the next reading adventures they will take. Visit the host blogs for a list of great blogs participating and a whole bunch of titles to add to your to-read lists.
Books I Finished:
Refugee was hard to put down. I stayed up too late one night reading it because the chapters are so short that you just keep wanting to read one more chapter. I love how middle grade authors play with style like that to make the books more appealing to readers. The content of this book was heartbreaking but it was well written and I liked how the stories wove together. I definitely recommend this book.
Today Tonight Tomorrow was another book I had a hard time putting down. I read it very quickly. It is such a cute YA romance book. I loved the reference to a love of reading and writing, and the way the protagonist was adamantly defending the Romance genre. I haven’t visited Seattle, but I could see how the love of that city was woven through this book too. I highly recommend this one!
Books I’m Reading:
The Art of Coaching is a book that I am reading for professional growth.
I just started reading Personality isn’t Permanent. I have not made any progress in this book yet. Putting together this blog post is reminding me that I should get back to this one.
What’s Next:
I have the next Pendergast novel right now, but I am not sure I want to read that one. I am hoping that some more of the titles I put on hold will come in this week. I guess I will just have to see how I feel and what comes up for me this week.
What are you reading this week? I would love to hear from you in the comments!
I agree with you that Refugee was hard to put down. I listened to it as an audiobook with different voices for the different characters. It was brilliant!
Ooh! I bet that was really great with the different narrator voices.
I loved Refugee, but I love all of his books. I just read his newest one last week. He is a master at connecting characters!
I had not ever read anything by him before. I will go look for his other books. Thanks for letting me know they are great!
I’m with Cheriee & Leigh Anne! Refugee is both wonderful & heartbreaking. I noted Today Tonight Tomorrow, a new one I hadn’t heard about. Thanks, Andrea, good luck with finding that next book!
Thank you!
These books sound excellent! I hope some of your holds arrive soon, and thanks for the great post!
Thank you! I am starting to get some holds in. Yay!
I am going to agree with everyone here that has stated a love for Alan Gratz’s books. I also just read Ground Zero and it might have been my favourite since Refugee. Thanks for sharing and have a great week.
I appreciate the recommendation. I haven’t read anything else by Alan Gratz. I will look for this title.
Refugee was fantastic!! I am amazed at Alan Gratz’s ability to craft historical fiction for the middle grade years. I’ll read anything he writes. And now I’m going to go look up Personality isn’t Permanent to see if we have a copy. I’m making the #imwayr rounds late this week, but thank you for the shares Andrea. I hope you’re having a great reading week!